I've been playing and recording Minecraft for many months now. I just recently played through Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dead Space 2 and had a great time. They were both extremely scary games, but were entirely different in the ways they try to scare you. Dead Space was more of a "OMG A MONSTER JUST FELL THROUGH THE CEILING!!", and Amnesia does its best to create an atmosphere where you never feel safe and are always dreading the next room.

But what they lack is what both experiences could gain from using each other's scare tactics, and one very important ingredient...

The looming danger of losing everything you carry with you, and everything you've created.

Minecraft has a dark and lonely world, creatures with unique ways of attacking you, and most importantly the threat of losing everything you've worked so hard for. Add these up and you get a scary experience you have to play to understand. I've screamed more in Minecraft than I have in Dead Space and Amnesia combined.

Here are the many scares and screams I've had over my Minecraft adventure thus far... (720p is a must: watch here)

Agree'd.I hate sitting in my 2x3 shelter, hoping that the spider outside my door isn't there to scare me when the sun rises, or hope that I can make it back to my shelter in the minute and a half that I'm allowed, otherwise I'd lose all that Iron I worked so hard to get. Or that the crawlers don't decide that exploding on me is a good thing.

Eventually, I just got tired of being scared out of panties and changed the difficulty to Peaceful. Call me a wuss, but it saves a lot of time in the end.

i do highly agree, partially due to the "graphics", that shit is fucking scary, i haven't gotten minecraft yet, i'm tempted to so i can use it on my laptop between classes, but damn, some of those videos freak me out. (sadly enough, amnesia didn't have too much effect on me..)

The original Thief had levels that were fucking terrifying. I first played when I was twelve and almost shit myself the first time through Cragscleft Mine and Constantine's mansion later on, and I just started replaying it today and it's still pretty damn scary. Excellent use of lighting, ambient noise, and horribly dangerous monsters. Sadly, I have yet to play the sequels, which I hear are even scarier.

But I completely understand the terror that comes with Minecraft. There's such a massive sense of apprehension when you venture into a pitch-black cavern, those few horrible seconds before you place your first torch. Minecraft really needs some friendly NPCs so you know you're not utterly alone in a world of things trying to kill you.

Oh, also: coming around a corner in the Nether, facing a ledge, and having one of the elephant-sized Ghasts rise out of the chasm five feet from my face was the first time i ever actually jumped out of my chair playing a game.

For my story: first day in a new file. My little shelter I had lacked a door, so I was using dirt blocks. I opened up a block, and a zombie falls down and kills me in four seconds, then the zombie dies from sunlight.

minecraft is definitely the scariest game i have ever played. i love the horror genre but the things that happen in minecraft are just plain disturbing. building chests substantially reduces the intensity though.

I find the idea of people being scared of Minecraft to be laughably absurd. Yeah, it can startle you when a creeper jumps out of the shadows, but that's not true horror. True horror is something that deeply disturbs you, something that will be unnerving just to think about. A creeper blowing up isn't anything like that.

The rest of the Minecraft world is nervewracking at times, but not exactly "scary"... but the damn Nether is just... built, literally, from nightmare fuel. You can tell, cause most of it will CATCH FIRE.

By that standard, Demon's Souls is a scarier game, to me at least. You walk around a dark, desolate world with soulless monsters walking around in hordes and ambushing you at every corner, and if you die you start at the beginning of the level fighting your way to get your souls again. The Tower of Latria has man centipedes and the Valley of Defilement has an area filled with aborted babies that can give you the plague.

Internet Kraken:I find the idea of people being scared of Minecraft to be laughably absurd. Yeah, it can startle you when a creeper jumps out of the shadows, but that's not true horror. True horror is something that deeply disturbs you, something that will be unnerving just to think about. A creeper blowing up isn't anything like that.

It's surprisingly scary, actually, in a different manner. I remember my first few nights, sheltering in a tiny little hole in the ocean... and hearing things swimming just past.

Now I have a glass house I can shelter in and watch the monsters from (without them seeing me), it's stopped being scary. Fear of the unknown is the worst kind of fear, and if you remove that, the blocky monsters just start to look silly. Now, the entertainment of night time is hoping they wander into my water traps and cackling evilly if they do.

The only thing slightly scary is that I think I might have a cavern just below my glass house. Horrible noises keep echoing up from the ground. I don't have any particular wish to dig down and find out what's making them.

Mine craft can be really scary at times, the noises of a zombie or a spider on the other side of the wall I'm mining freaked me out, I made a new single player level recently, and I found a huge cavern system in the starting area, right near the surface, while it was hard trying to make my way through the area, I am now better off, as I have more iron than I have cobblestone!

Internet Kraken:I find the idea of people being scared of Minecraft to be laughably absurd. Yeah, it can startle you when a creeper jumps out of the shadows, but that's not true horror. True horror is something that deeply disturbs you, something that will be unnerving just to think about. A creeper blowing up isn't anything like that.

i have yet to play a game that keeps me up at night because i am scared. most horror games only get you with cheap *something jumps out infront of you* and things like that which for a secound startle you. minecraft give you the fear of dying, but that does not scare you when your not playing the game.

I nearly crapped myself when my house, which was giant and had a forest in it and was in the MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN CAUGHT FIRE! till this day i still don't know how it happened but I made a knew and better house but out of rock.

Yeah, it's a really scary game. I personally hate zombie sounds, they're scary and disturbing - when they get near my house, they just make these noises over and over.

Also, at the beginning, when i thought that all the monsters disappear when the daylight comes, i had two accidents:1. I come out of my house (seeing no alive mob through the window), and suddenly skeleton starts shooting at me, from a small pocket above my house. 2. This was when i started playing minecraft and didn't even saw a monster once. I was mining coal on some mountain, in a very small (like two blocks) pocket. Suddenly - i heard a new, hissing sound behind my back!Guess what happened!

Also, gigantic (it takes like three to four journeys to explore and mine everything) cave systems that seem to be created often in my world (and i haven't seen a dungeon - ever!) are all dark and contain tons of every kind of enemies. Scary, especially when there is more than one way to choose, and i never know what's behind my back.